commit something to memory Definition

commit
verb committed, committing

1. To carry out or perpetrate (a crime, offence, error, etc).

Thesaurus: perpetrate, perform, do, practise.
2. To have someone put in prison or a mental institution.
3. To promise or engage, especially oneself, for some undertaking, etc.

Thesaurus: devote, promise, vow, obligate, bind.
4. To dedicate oneself to a cause, etc from a sense of conviction.

Example: She committed herself to Christ
5. To entrust or give.

Thesaurus: entrust, confide, consign, charge, allocate.
6. To send someone for trial in a higher court.

Idiom: commit oneself

To make a definite irrevocable decision.

Idiom: commit something to memory

To memorize it.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin committere to put together or to join.